The Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum is perhaps the best place for anyone to come experience the wildlife and vegetation found in southern Arizona. For wheelers, ASDM gets top marks for it’s accessibility.

Tweet LOCATION: Southern Arizona Sabino Canyon is an amazing park, and it’s one of the reasons I started Accessing Arizona. It is a rather unknown yet remarkably beautiful desert canyon featuring a rare little creek running through it. The main walking trail is actually a paved road that meanders through shady trees, water pools, rock […]

Tweet Tombstone Arizona probably wasn’t too accessible 100 years ago when it made a name for itself. Today, tourism has replaced gambling and shootouts, and Tombstone can be toured from a wheelchair. They’ll even hang you and your chair for a small donation! You can still find Doc and Wyatt and some pretty authentic cowboys […]

Tweet Pure commercial tourist attractions are not my favorite to blog about. In fact it is a chore to even get them actually published. But even I go to a few because kids and visiting relatives enjoy the psuedo-native culture they portray. If you are in Tucson, and you have kids and or a craving […]

What Acessing Arizona Is All About

Accessing Arizona is primarily designed for people who are looking for wheelchair accessible events, locations and activities. If you have paralysis (paraplegic or quadriplegic), Muscular Dystrophy, Spinal Bifida, or if you are an amputee, Accessing Arizona has information about an active lifestyle.

If you are traveling to Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Sedona or the Grand Canyon, the site offers insight about the accessibility. We cover trails, lakes, state parks, national parks and just about anything claiming to be handicapped accessible. The site also covers sports and recreation in Arizona.

From racing to rugby, from basketball to sled hockey, we cover all the local sports teams. Note: All photographs and essays are copyright Accessing Arizona, unless noted otherwise. Individuals may copy photos for their personal use provided the photo includes a text link back to www.accessingarizona.com. For commercial or editorial use, please contact the editor.